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Post by Dj on Jan 11, 2002 22:05:48 GMT -5
Star Trek must be played a half hundred times a week here! It's hard to keep count. I've cable. I don't watch it much and can't keep track of when it's on, but I'll catch an episode here and there. I don't see how any show can even come close to comparing to the success of Trek.
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Post by Christina on Jan 12, 2002 6:39:13 GMT -5
Sky shows Trek at the wrong times for this wage slave, and anyway I hate the commercial introductions.
It's the video collection I get my fix from.
(and DVD collection from March this year!)
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Post by Holodoc on Jan 12, 2002 7:09:35 GMT -5
Sky shows Trek at the wrong times for this wage slave, and anyway I hate the commercial introductions. It's the video collection I get my fix from. (and DVD collection from March this year!) Well you PAL scan people are almost up to date in your video releases. Would you believe in the USA half of DS9 and only most of the first 3 seasons of Voyager are available of the last two series? I am not allowed to say the nature of the collection I get my fix from, and more than the videos I recorded during airing. However, with my favorites I usually get the pre-recordeds if they're available, so Paramount has to leave me alone
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Post by Christina on Jan 12, 2002 7:17:03 GMT -5
Well you PAL scan people are almost up to date in your video releases. Yup, just 2 Voy tapes to go....... Oh yes, I love rubbing salt in the wounds of the Columbia House tape collectors over there............ and we get the TNG DVD box sets first!!!!
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Post by Gnom on Jan 12, 2002 13:19:08 GMT -5
Before starting this thread I was under the impression that in the US it would be hard work avoiding Trek whenever you switch on your TV. Thank you for proving me right. Am I (and Peter...) really the only one here suffering from Trek drought, or is it just that others with the same fate can't make themself to bring it out...?
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Post by Holodoc on Jan 12, 2002 14:25:27 GMT -5
Before starting this thread I was under the impression that in the US it would be hard work avoiding Trek whenever you switch on your TV. Thank you for proving me right. Are you kidding? What about the people without cable, who don't live in or near a major city? I'm recording and sending Voy reruns to someone in deepinaharta Texas because she doesn't get UPN. In fact, when Voyager was on, it ran on a CBS affiliate at something like 2am Sat morning. Another friend got Voyager on NBC at 11:30pm Sat night. They have cable, which carries both Sci Fi and TNN (man I never thought I'd ever tune in to TNN a yr ago). But not everybody does, just like many Brits don't get Sky cable channels and rely on BBC's schedule. Yeah Paramount: how about that marketing or even rental availability? USA is a big place. Not everyone's got it lucky.
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Post by Gnom on Jan 12, 2002 15:22:31 GMT -5
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Post by Technomage on Jan 21, 2002 2:09:53 GMT -5
Here in New Zealand, we are regularly messed around when it comes to Star Trek.
Out of six 'free to air' channels only one shows any Star Trek and that is years behind the rest of the world.
DS9 just finished its run here, about four months ago and we are currently watching the end of season six of Voyager.
For a while they were repeating both Voyager and DS9 older episodes, but that has now stopped.
As for Enterprise, none of the channels has even bought it yet, so we have no idea when it will air here.
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Post by Holodoc on Jan 21, 2002 4:29:55 GMT -5
DS9 just finished its run here, about four months ago and we are currently watching the end of season six of Voyager. Ahhh to have seen Life Line again for the first time... Isn't it odd that you can buy home video of the episodes quicker?
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Post by Elric3960 on Jan 21, 2002 13:56:25 GMT -5
^^^Not odd, Holodoc. I would say Paramount was being greedy, self-serving, arrogant, lazy, and Machiavellian, but not odd.
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Post by Technomage on Jan 22, 2002 1:59:25 GMT -5
Isn't it odd that you can buy home video of the episodes quicker? That's how a lot of fans see it over here, as it is available on tape months before it screens on TV. You'd think the station would wise up to this fact!
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Post by Holodoc on Jan 23, 2002 8:52:46 GMT -5
You'd think the station would wise up to this fact! Regrettably, wisdom and licensing don't always mix.
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Post by Christina on Jan 24, 2002 13:59:25 GMT -5
The BBC have gotten used to it. The keen fans watch on SkyOne, the rest get the videos each month in the shops and the remainder catch it 6pm on BBC2 - the intellectual channel for the 'non-popular, high-brow' shows. ;D
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Post by StolenThunder on Jan 24, 2002 14:20:19 GMT -5
remainder catch it 6pm on BBC2 i.e those that cannot pay for satellite television... Indeed. [The New Adventures of Superman ]
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Post by Christina on Jan 24, 2002 14:42:13 GMT -5
We're Digital Cable actually. ;D And I love Horizon, Time Watch...etc.
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